Chimpanzees found to age in ways similar to humans

A team of researchers from the University of New Mexico and the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in…

What actually are 'essential services' and who decides?

The Morrison government keeps using the word “essential” to describe employees, public gatherings, services and businesses…

The World According to Weather Satellites

On April 1, 1960, NASA’s first operational weather satellite, TIROS-1, launched from Cape Canaveral. This multimedia…

Honeyeaters send lightning-fast warning signals

New Holland honeyeaters are experts at sounding the alarm when there’s danger, according to new research…

Cashing on cryptocurrencies

Heed the words of their profits—In uncertain times, uncertain things can happen. Writing in the International…

Optical telescopes obtain long-term monitoring results of flux variability in blazars

Blazars are a special kind of rare active galactic nuclei. They are currently the most likely…

Scientists reveal photochemical rationale of SH(X)/H2S abundance ratios in interstellar medium

Research group led by Prof. YUAN Kaijun and Prof. YANG Xueming from the Dalian Institue of…

Researcher offers recommendations on using remote sensing to quantify forest health

While using large swaths of coarse satellite data can be an effective tool for evaluating forests…

Overcoming carbon loss from farming in peatlands

In many regions of the world, farming must be done on areas of soil categorized as…

Scientists find a practical approach to improve differential gene expression analysis

Identification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) is a fundamental step for many biomedical studies. RNA-sequencing is…